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The Tavy (Template:IPAc-en) is a river on Dartmoor, Devon, England. The name derives from the Brythonic root {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, once thought to mean 'dark' but now generally understood to mean 'to flow'.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It has given its name to the town of Tavistock and the villages of Mary Tavy and Peter Tavy.
It is a tributary of the River Tamar and has as its own tributaries: Collybrooke, River Burn, River Wallabrooke, River Lumburn, and River Walkham. At Tavistock it feeds a canal running to Morwellham Quay.
Its mouth is crossed by the Tavy Bridge which carries the Tamar Valley railway line.
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The river is navigable inland as far as Lopwell, where a weir marks the normal tidal limit, about a Template:Convert journey from North Corner Quay at Devonport.<ref>Ordnance Survey mapping</ref> River transport was an important feature of the local farming, mining, tourism and forestry economies.<ref>Template:Cite map</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Queen's Harbour Master for Plymouth<ref>Queen's Harbour Master Plymouth</ref> is responsible for managing navigation on the River Tavy up to the normal tidal limit.<ref>The Dockyard Port of Plymouth Order 1999</ref>
- Lopwell Dam on the River Tavy - geograph.org.uk - 1533352.jpg
Lopwell weir, highest point of navigation
- River Tavy - geograph.org.uk - 698852.jpg
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See alsoEdit
- Tamar–Tavy Estuary SSSI
ReferencesEdit
- Armstrong, Robin (1985). The Painted Stream. London: Dent. Template:ISBN.
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